Al Morgan July 25, Strobe Data Providing Solutions to Industry for 31 Years

Al Morgan July 25, Strobe Data - Background  Founded in 1972  Initially Data General OEM  Provided real-time systems for industry and government  Develop, manufacture and sell PC based compatible minicomputer systems

Al Morgan July 25, “” Seamless Migration !! “ Run your minicomputer applications today on your PC platform ”

Al Morgan July 25,  Hawk - Migrates Data General Nova and Eclipse Hardware and Operating system to Wintel platform.  Osprey - Migrates DEC PDP-11 Hardware, Operating system and Application software to Wintel platform.  Kestrel - Migrates HP1000 hardware, RTE, and Application software to Wintel platform. With no changes in the original software!!! Emulation Experience - 27 years

Al Morgan July 25, DG Nova/Eclipse to Hawk Co-Processor Hawk 1987

Al Morgan July 25, PDP-11 to Osprey Co-Processor Osprey PDP-11/83 PDP-11/20 PDP-11/93 PDP-11/05 PDP-11/44 PDP-11/

Al Morgan July 25, HP1000 to Kestrel Co-Processor KESTREL 2116A 2115A 2114A A-SERIES A600,A700 A900 A400 A MX - M 21MX - E 21MX - F L -SERIES

Al Morgan July 25, Seamless Migration Windows 2000 Co-Processor Emulator Custom Legacy Hardware RTE Fortran Assembly Cobol Application Legacy Hardware RTE Fortran Assembly Cobol Application

Al Morgan July 25, Co-Processor Enclosures Applications Environments CommercialAdverseIndustrial Tower PC, server class Mil-Rugged Chassis Rack Mountable Chassis

Al Morgan July 25, Commercial Tower PC Host Example HP ’ s Vectra

Al Morgan July 25, Adverse Mil-Rugged Kestrel/PC

Al Morgan July 25, Industrial Rack Mountable PC Chassis FCC and CE certifiable chassis 450 Watt universal PS Fan cooled Unibus backplane for 4 or 9 hex-height custom cards 267 or 356 mm H 483 mm W 560 mm D 20 kg HP1000 backplane, 10 - slots

Al Morgan July 25, Industrial Rack Mountable PC Chassis Kestrel card plugs into PC motherboard Strobe ’ s Legacy Hardware Chassis PC motherboard Power supply

Al Morgan July 25, Rack Mount Hawk Chassis DG 4 - Slots

Al Morgan July 25, Rack Mount Osprey Chassis 4 -UniBus slots

Al Morgan July 25, Rack Mount Osprey Chassis 9 -UniBus slots

Al Morgan July 25, Rack Mount Kestrel Chassis 10-Slot

Al Morgan July 25, Rack Mount Kestrel Chassis 10-Slot

Al Morgan July 25, Rack Mountable Custom OEM Chassis 5.25” Qbus, PC

Al Morgan July 25, Strobe Hardware Co-Processor

Al Morgan July 25, Co-Processor Architecture 32 MB/S 132MB/S Read Write

Al Morgan July 25, Benefits of the Co-Processor  Move to a high reliability, low maintenance cost system platform  Investment protection –Keep existing peripherals –Retain the existing code and licenses –Preserve special or custom I/O devices using legacy bus adapter  Access to new, cost-effective technology –Replace low-density, high-cost legacy mass storage peripherals with modern commodity devices –Migration of multiple legacy family systems to a single PC –Code development can continue like on the real legacy system, Or data from the legacy application can be piped into new applications on the PC without disturbing the legacy code.

Al Morgan July 25, Co-Processor Legacy System Highlights  Code and Binary compatible with legacy software and application code.  Emulates a wide class of legacy peripherals.  Full architectural emulation supports all legacy software.  Legacy Interface Controller available for custom I/O needs  99% of the time plug and play!!

Al Morgan July 25, Summary Ride PC improvements into the future!  Trivial transition from legacy system to Co-Processor  Increased reliability using PC devices  Preserves existing legacy software investment  Improved performance  Reduced floorspace and electrical power